Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-12-22
EFFECT OF THE MESSAGE.
Republican Papers that Recognize
the Demands.

AecpuoiACdh EdpcEs ttidt theCOSnlLe
the Demands.
/ The New York Evening Post SAYS the
Republicans have already discovered
that yelling "Free traden at the Presi-
dent and opposing any effort to incor-
porate in legislation his recommended
tions for reduction of the surplus will
not meet the situation. Mr.. Cleveland
presented In his message the first diff
Guilty which cOnfronts them when he
remarked that "both of the great politi-
cal parties now represented in the gov
eminent have, by repeated authorita-
tive declarations, condemned the con-
dition of our laws which permits the
collection from the people of unnecessa-
ry revenue, and have, in the most
solemn manner, promised its correc-
tion," and thus recalled to public at
tention the fact that the platform of
the last Republican national convention
enunciated this doctrine: "The Demo-
cratic party has failed completely to
relieve the people of the burden of un-
necessary taxation by wise reduction
of the surplus. The Republican party
| pledges itself to correct INEQUALITIES of
the tariff and to reduce the surplus"
AHS OhiCdSo LTbUcUc, Tic leuulHS I'VE
publican paper of the west, promptly
admitted ''the message is simply
the tariff reduction plank Of the
Republican party, adopted in 1884, ex-
panded. 1t is neither more nor less
than textual sermon on that passage
of the resolution which promised to
11reduce the surplus by correcting the
inequalities of the Tariff and it is GER
tainly none the less binding on the Re-
publicans for being now SO indorsed by
Democratic President If the Chi
cago Tribune were the only Republican
paper of any prominence which holds |
this view the outlook would not be SO
serious; but the fact is it is only one of
many. The st. Paul Pioneer Press, |
which has long been universally recog-
nized as the leading Republican paper
of Minnesota, says that 'the President
constructs an argument which will at
tract universal attention by its depar-
tnre from the traditionary lines of ex-
ecutive addresses, and which is, in the
main, "strong in the truth;n and adds
that there is no reason why the recon-
mendations sent to Congress should
not, i'll the main, be complied with at
an early day. The Omaha Bee,
which has wide influence among the
4 Republicans of Nebraska, says that
1.-THE message commends itself to
the attention of the country as clear,
straightforward, patriotic and states
manlike discussion of the question
which overshadows all others in its inn
mediate importance, and is certain to
/ exert q great inauenceupon the public
! mind.n
| Nor Is this Republican sentiment in
favor of the Presidents position con-
fired to the northwest. The Iowa
State Register, the leading Republican
paper in its State, says that "NIr. Cleve-
land will find that the Republican
members of Congress will meet him
half way in all fair, and reasonable
measures for the reduction of the sur
Iplus, and that "they are for reducing
the tariff to some extent.n The Indiah-
i apOlis Journal, the chief of Republic
can organ in Indiana, expresses the
hope that the Republicans will prepare
and present revenue reform measure
and bluntly declares that "the party
cannot content itself or the country
simply with opposition The Journal
quotes Congressman Browne, the old
est and shrewdest Republican Congress-
man from Indiana, as saying ''the Re-
publicans will very generally support
a bill placing sugar. salt, lumber, and
in fact all of the plain necessaries of
life, on the free list" The Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette is constrained to
admit that the Presidents course will
4 perhaps turn out cunning strata
gem" It says that ''it will not divide
the Democratic party that sit is not
certain to hurt him in New York, y and
most significant of all, that sit has a
streak of help in the fact that many
Republicans think it time that the war
i tariff was reformed' The Providence
I Journal, published in the heart of q
manufacturing State, admitted the day
after the message was sent in that "a
war tariff in time of peace is an am
achronism, an injustice 2 and that "the
President has with him, in the broad
sense of perceiving necessity, the peo-
ple;' and it now declares that 1.-THE Re-
publican party will commit very seri-
GUS blunder if it allows itself to be put
In the position of opposing the reduc-
tion of taxation and the revision of the
tariff
The Boston Adyey1iser, another Re
publican newspaper In manufacture
ling State, talks in the same strain. HIn
the midst of this wrangle,n it says, 'sit
should not be forgotten that it is the
demand of the whole country that the
surplus be reduced and that the party
will do the best service which endeav-
ors to pass wholesome legislation with
this end in viewn tits not necessary
to multiply quotations in order to show
that the policy of opposition to the
President, which she Blaine element
recommends, would split the Republi-
can party.
What's the inatter?'' asked a gentle
man, approaching a crowd on the
street. Man run over by street car
and leg cut off, "Heavens!' he said
forcing his way to the prostrate form.